Wilhelm von Finck

In Frankfurt am Main, he was a student at the Hasselsche Institut. He worked first for German company Bankhaus Philipp Nicolaus Schmidt. Since 1869 he worked for Nestle, Andreae & Co. in London and since 1870 for Merck Finck & Co. in Darmstadt. By 1879, together with his brother August Finck, who replaced the departing general Adolf Karl Ludwig Christian, the previous authorized representative Wilhelm von Finck already held a large part of the bank assets of Merck Finck & Co. Together with German entrepreneur Theodor von Cramer-Klett and Carl von Thieme he founded company Munich Re in April 1880. German company Allianz was founded in Berlin on 5 February 1890 by then director of the Munich Reinsurance Company (Munich Re) Carl von Thieme (a native of Erfurt, whose father was the director of Thuringia) and Wilhelm von Finck. ==Personal life==

In 1886, he married Marie Fäustle and they had four children. One of his children was German businessman August von Finck Sr. (1898-1980). == Awards ==

• Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown == Literature ==

• Bernhard Hoffmann: Wilhelm von Finck 1848-1924. Lebensbild eines deutschen Bankiers, Verlag Beck, München 1953. • Bernhard Hoffmann: Finck, Wilhelm Peter von. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, , p. 150 f. (Digitalisat). • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Band III, Band 61 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975, ISSN 0435-2408. • Genealogisches Handbuch des in Bayern immatrikulierten Adels, Band XXV; 2004. 62, Vereinigung des Adels in Bayern. Verlag : Degener, • Marita Krauss: Die Finks. Eine Dynastie der Hochfinanz zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik, in: Marita Krauss (Hrsg.): Die bayerischen Kommerzienräte - Eine deutsche Wirtschaftselite von 1880 bis 1928, Volk Verlag, München 2016, p. 258–264. ==References==